aeva3d ago
i want to make a little art portfolio site, and I'm stuck between wanting to fuck with scrapists and wanting to not fuck with screen readers. I'm considering chopping up images into tiles which would be assembled into their correct relative locations via css or something. i could even put alt text on it with a transparent image layered on top spanning the full area. downside is real people wouldn't be able to download the images though :/
Show threadLR3d ago

@aeva i would only make my site easy to delta and download so the scraper doesn't keep returning all the time. that means no procedurally generated content, no "house of leaves", just pages with correct caching information.

coincidentally that's exactly how our website is set up r/n.

Show threadaeva3d ago
@lritter i don't want them to download my stuff at all
Show threadLR3d ago
@aeva there are more direct and effective ways to achieve this goal.
Show threadaeva3d ago
@lritter sure. not putting anything new on my website is also accomplishing that goal
Show threadLR3d ago
@aeva i would strive for a solution that others benefit also from; for instance, they would not only not download my stuff, but also not download your stuff.
Show threadaeva3d ago
@lritter strictly speaking we all benefit from nvidianthropicrosoft going under, so all they have to do is wait patiently and then we can all have nice things again
Show threadaeva3d ago
@lritter slop coding tools can only "generate" beaten path solutions, and anything that is under represented performs poorly. games being one of the major holdouts for proprietary software development is probably a major inhibiting factor, so it stands to reason that if i don't want to spend the rest of my career cleaning up ai generated diarrhea then i should not release the source code for side project games until this all blows over. same goes for art and writing
Show threadLR3d ago
@aeva i just pretend they do not exist and go about my merry way. best fuck you i can think of.
Show threadaeva3d ago
@lritter i felt that way too and now it is infecting more and more things
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@aeva do you believe that this happened because of your ignorance?
Show threadaeva
@lritter maybe it would have happened anyway, or maybe it wouldn't have if more people gave a shit about anything
Mar 25 at 9:50amWeb
Show threadLR3d ago

@aeva clearly people giving a shit is not enough.

i recognize my limits, and exercise my power within them.